Once upon a time there was a greedy snake.

Chapter 402 Black Hand
In the void, the young Ignivas man, Singing Bowl, kept observing the battle in the distance.

When those long-eared elves landed on the mother planet, Songbo was initially worried, because with his abilities, he could naturally tell that the landing point of these elves and the way they would cause destruction would cause great damage to the mother planet.

Clearly, these suddenly appearing elves possess formidable technical skills.

Singing Bowl even wanted to return to its home planet, as did the other Ignivas.

In the end, however, they chose to remain inactive.

After all, compared to these elves themselves, there is something even more dangerous lurking around: Upo Salas, the powerful being who released the elves, who is likely still plotting some other conspiracy. So, just in case, the Ignivas should remain still, or they might fall into that monster's trap.

But just watching from the sidelines is really quite frustrating.

However, recently, things seem to have changed. Fewer and fewer elf suicide squads are going to the home planet. Instead, the long-eared elves are starting to fight amongst themselves. Heaven knows what methods the home planet used to achieve this, but it is clear that this tactic is quite effective.

Judging from the ferocity of the battle between those long-eared elves, it was clear that they were truly enraged and had completely forgotten about destroying the alien planet.

"However... at this point, we should take advantage of the chaos to make our move."

This is the judgment of the singing bowl, and also the judgment of many Ignivas.

Taking advantage of the chaos, they launched a counterattack using the methods of these long-eared elves. Before their home planet was destroyed, they shattered the alien planet first, and then used their home planet to capture all the resources from the alien planet. Inspired by these long-eared elves, the Ignivas also began to understand how to fight this kind of interplanetary war.

However, during this excellent period of strategic opportunity, there was no movement whatsoever on their home planet.

"It's like they haven't mastered teleportation arrays yet..."

Thinking of this, Songbo couldn't help but sigh.

It turns out that the technology was restricted.

This is indeed a pity. After all, it has been quite some time since the Ignivas left their homeland. Back then, they already had the ability to travel among the stars, but now, looking back, these new generations of life do not even have the ability to leave their planet.

"Why don't we go back and teach them?"

This thought arose in Songbo's mind, after all, this strategic opportunity was extremely rare.

If we could swallow the planets of these elves, our home planet would at least double in size, creating a new land, a new sky, and a much larger world.

But it was also while the singing bowls were still developing their ideas.

But he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

First, it was the alien planet inhabited by the elves. The long-eared elves who were fighting each other suddenly stopped. Just a second ago, they were killing each other and drawing blood, but at that moment, they all seemed to have been brainwashed and stopped fighting.

Immediately afterwards, they returned to their posts as if nothing had happened and continued to organize attacks on the alien planet.

"What...is going on?"

Singing Bowl immediately thought of a possibility.

Clearly, the infamous Upo Salas, who was hiding behind these elves, had made his move.

Through forceful brainwashing, Ubo Salas restored everything to its original state, demonstrating exceptional control. Clearly, Ubo Salas did not originally intend to do this, whether due to personal reasons or because it was too taxing.
"Or is it that doing it this way is too inefficient? After all, this kind of distorted consciousness may not be able to exert its full power. If it can exert 70% of its full power, that would already be considered very good."

Singing Bowl subconsciously calculated; as an Ignivas, he was very sensitive to such fluctuations in consciousness.

But he immediately realized another problem. The forced brainwashing reset had reduced the combat power of these long-eared elves. Although these long-eared elves could still organize attacks, the missing part was simply missing.

Therefore, in order to achieve the goal, the missing combat power must be made up for.

So, how will Upo Salas make amends?

Is it to bring out new collectibles?
Or……

"not good!"

The singing bowl will soon strengthen its connection with the collective consciousness of the Ignivas people.

However, he was ultimately a step too slow.

In other words, by the time Songbo realized something was wrong, everything around him had already frozen in place.

Just like the chill emanating from the void itself, the burning consciousness of the singing bowl came to a standstill. Time and space were locked for the singing bowl at this moment. It was even difficult for it to mobilize its own consciousness, simply because its consciousness itself was also fixed.

Then came the disassembly and reconstruction.

It was as if something had been taken away and something new had been added. The burning flames of consciousness that had surrounded the singing bowl had transformed from a blazing bright yellow into an inky black, like the void.

Immediately afterwards, the solidification around the singing bowl was loosened.

And the consciousness of singing bowls gradually returned.

"I think I just went through something... so what am I here for?"

Singing Bowl tried to recall.

Immediately afterwards, a memory appeared in his mind.

That was the past when the evil ancient serpent deceived the Ignivas, the past when the ferocious ancient serpent abused the Ignivas, the cruel giant serpent treated the Ignivas like slaves, just to make them tame those hairy elephants.

The Ignivas people once worshipped this ancient serpent.

But this evil ancient serpent betrayed them for its own selfish gain.

"My return this time is a mission assigned by the clan. The clan wants me, the youngest warrior, to end this ancient curse."

Taking a deep breath, the singing bowl opened its eyes.

He already understood what he had to do.

"The only reason I stayed here was because there were still elders in the tribe who were attached to that ancient serpent... Now I have seen the serpent's wickedness, and it is time to get rid of this scourge for my people."

With this thought in mind, the singing bowl, its body wreathed in jet-black flames, flew straight toward its home planet.

"Right, that is it."

In the void behind the singing bowl, Upo Salas, hidden within the crack, revealed a smile.

"Let me see just how far you Ignivas are capable of."

(End of this chapter)